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A91048	The proceedings in the late treaty of peace· Together with severall letters of his Majesty to the Queen, and of Prince Rupert to the Earle of Northampton, which were intercepted and brought to the Parliament. With a declaration of the Lords and Commons upon those proceedings and letters. Ordered by the Lords and Commons, that these proceedings, letters, and declaration be forthwith printed. H. Elsing Cler. Parliament. Dom. Com.	Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619-1682.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England, 1609-1669.; Northampton, Spencer Compton, Earl of, 1601-1643.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing P3571; Thomason E102_6; ESTC R11174	75,243	98

THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE LATE TREATY OF PEACE Together VVith severall Letters of his Majesty to the Queen and of Prince Rupert to the Earle of Northampton which were intercepted and brought to PARLIAMENT WITH A Declaration of the Lords and Commons upon those Proceedings and Letters ORdered by the Lords and Commons that these Proceedings Letters and Declaration be forthwith Printed H. Elsing Cler. Parliament Dom. Com. LONDON Printed for Edwards Husbands and are to be sold at his Shop in the Middle Temple 1643. The humble Desires and Propositions of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled tendred unto his Majestie February the first 1642. WE your Majesties most humble and faithfull Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled having in our thoughts the glory of God your Majesties honour and the prospetity of your People and being most grievously afflicted with the pressing meseries calamities which have overwhelmed your two Kingdomes of England and Ireland since your Majesty hath by the persuasion of evil Counsellors withdrawn your self from the Parliament raised an Army against it and by force thereof protected Delinquents from the Justice of it constraining us to take Arms for the defence of our Religion Laws Liberties Priviledges of Parliament and for the sitting of the Parliament in safety which fears and dangers are continued and increased by the raising drawing together and arming of great numbers of Papists under the command of the Earle of Newcastle likewise by making the Lord Herbert of Ragland and other known Papists Commanders of great forces whereby many grievous Oppressions Rapines and Cruelties have been and are daily exercised upon the persons and estates of your people much innocent bloud hath been spilt and the Papists have attained means of attempting and hopes of effecting their mischievous designe of rooting out the Reformed Religion and destroying the professors thereof In the tender sence and compassion of these evils under which your people and Kingdom lie according to the duty which we owe to God your Majesty and the Kingdom for which we are intrusted do most earnestly desire that an end may be put to these great distempers and distractions for the preventing of that desolation which doth threaten all your Majesties Dominions And as we have rendred and still are ready to render to your Majesty that subjection obedience and service which we owe unto you so we most humbly beseech your Majesty to remove the Cause of this war and to vouchsafe us that peace and protection which we and our Ancestors have formerly enjoyed under your Majesty and your Royall Predecessors and graciously to accept and grant these most humble desires and Propositions 1 THat your Majesty will be pleased to disband your Armies as wee likewise shall be ready to disband all those Forces which wee have raised And that you will be pleased to return to your Parliament 2. That you will leave Delinquents to a Legall Triall and judgment of Parliament 3. That the Papists may not onely be disbanded but disarmed according to Law 4. That your Majesty will be pleased to give your Royall assent unto the Bill for taking away Superstitious Innovations To the Bill for the utter abolishing and taking away of all Archbishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries Deans Subdeans Deans Chapters Archdeacons Canons and Prebendaries and all Chanters Chancellors Treasurers Subtreasurers Succentors and Sacrists and all Vicars Chorall and Choristers old Vicars and new Vicars of any Cathedrall or Collegiate Church and all other their under-officers out of the Church of England To the Bill against scandalous Ministers To the Bill against Pluralicies And to the Bill for consultation to be had with godly religious and learned Divines That your Majesty will be pleased to promise to passe such other good Bils for setling of Church-government as upon consultation with the Assembly of the said Divines shall be resolved on by both houses of Parliament and by them be presented to your Majestie That your Majesty having exprest in Your Answer to the Nineteene Propositions of both houses of Parliament a hearty affection and Intentions for the rooting out of Poperie out of this Kingdome and that if both the houses of Parliament can yet sinde a more effectuall Course to disable Jesuites Priests and popish Recusants from disturbing the State or deluding the Lawes that you would willingly give your consent unto it That You would be graciously pleased for the better discovery and speedier conviction of Recusants That an Oath may be established by Act of Parliament to be Administred in such manner as by both Houses shall be agreed on wherein they shall abjure and renounce the Popes Supremacy The doctrine of Transubstantiation Purgatory worshipping of the consecrated Hoast Crucifixes and Images and the refasing the said Oath being tendred in such manner as shall be appointed by Act of Parliament shall be a sufficient Conviction Law of Recusancie And that your Majestie will be graciously pleased to give Your Royall assent unto a Bill for the Education of the children of Papists by Protestants in the Protestant Religion That for the more effectuall execution of the Lawes against popish Recusants your Majesty would be pleased to consent to a Bill for the true levying of the Panalties against them and that the same Penaltie may be levyed and disposed of in such manner as both houses of Parliament shall agree on so as your Majestie be at no loss And likewise to a Bill whereby the practise of Papists against the State may be prevented and the Laws against them duly executed 6. That the Earle of Bristoll may be removed from your Majesties Councells and that both he and the Lord Herbert eldest sonne to the Earle of Worcester may likewise be restrained from comming within the Verge of the Court and that they may not beare any Office or have my imployments concerning the State or Common-wealth 7. That Your Majestie will be graciously pleased by Act of Parliament to settle the Militia both by Sea and Land and for the Forts and Ports of the Kingdome in such a manner as shall be agreed on by both Houses 8. That Your Majestie will be pleased by Your Letters Patents to make Sir Iohn Brampston Chiefe Justice of Your Court of Kings Bench William Lentall Esquire the now Speaker of the Commons house Master of the Rolls and to continue the Lord chiefe Justice Bankes chiefe Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and likewise to make Master Serjeant Wilde Chiefe Baron of Your Court of Exchequer And that Master Justice Bacon may be continued And Master Serjeant Rolls and Master Serjeant Arkins made Justices of the Kings Bench. That Master Justice Reeves and Master Justices Foster may be continued and Master Serjeant Phesant made one of Your Justices of Your Court of Common Pleas That Master Serjeant Cresivell M. Samuel Browne and Master John Pulleston may be Barons of the Exchequer And that all these and all the Judges of the same Courts for

Members to their sitting and Votes It is observable that the demand is made without distinction of persons or offences so that be the persons never so criminous or the offences never so notorious and so the Judgement never so just yet all must be restored or no consent to disbanding And the reason and ground of the Demand is as observable Because they adhered to His Majesty in these distractions An Argument they must confesse much used by the Earl of Strafford in defence of his Treason who would have justified the most notorious Crimes laid to his charge by Authority and Commands derived from His Majesty and his zeal to advance His Majesties Service and profit and no doubt the same reason may be used for the Judges in case of Ship-money and most of the Monopolists and Projectors who by Letters Patents had not onely His Majesties Command and Authority for the doing what they did but brought in great Sums of Money to His use and benefit and that perhaps in times of necessity and want thereof And so consequently because these adhered to His Majesty for what they did was for his profit with the like reason it may be required That all Impeachments and Proceedings against them should be repealed and laid aside And surely nothing can be more destructive and dangerous both to Parliament and Kingdom then the consenting to that Demand For what can be more destructive to both Houses then to restore those persons to have their former suffrage and Votes in Parliament over the lives and Liberties of the People and the Priviledge of Parliament who have not onely disserted the Parliament disobeyed and contemned their Authority neglected the Trust reposed in them by those that sent them thither in whose behalf they were to attend and serve there but by private practises and open hostility have endeavoured to destroy both Parliament and people And it would be an objection of difficultie to answer whether in giving a consent to this demand the people who are to chuse these Members should not be deprived of their interest and freedom of choice and election now divolved unto them by putting out the Members already sent And to this they might adde the danger of the President and the reflection of dishonour that would fall upon both Houses should they consent to this which would be with the same breath as it were to give and repeal their judgement and pronounce sentence of injustice and rashnesse against themselves but they will not insist thereupon in a case otherwise so full of danger and inconveniencie to the publique And touching the Proposition of adjourning the Parliament twenty miles distant from London they shall not need in a case so apparant to spend many words to discover the inconveniencie and unreasonablenesse thereof for should they assent unto it to passe over the inconveniencies that would happen to such persons that should have occasion to attend the Parliament by removing it so far from the residencie of the ordinary Courts of Justice and the places where the Records of the Kingdom remain whereof there is frequent use to be made it would not onely give a tacite consent to those scandals so often pressed and affirmend in severall Declarations That is That His Majestie was forced for the safetie of His own person heretofore to withdraw and hitherto to absent himself from the Parliament which both Houses can by no means admit but must still deny But likewise to that high and dangerous aspersion of awing the Members of this Parliament raised without doubt purposely to invalide the Acts and proceeding thereof And by that engine in case the Popish Armie should prevail against the Parliament which they trust God in his goodnesse will never permit to overturn and nullifie all the good Lawes and Statutes made this Parliament And it would give too much countenance to those unjust aspesirons laid to the charge of the City of London whose unexsampled zeal and fidelity to the true Protestant Religion and the Liberty of this kingdom is never to be forgotten That His Majesty and the Members of both Houses cannot with safety to their persons reside there when as they are well assured That the loyalty of that City to His Majesty and their affections to the Parliament is such as doth equall if not exceed any other place or City in the Kingdom And with what safety the two Houses can sit in any other place when even in the place they now reside the House of Commons was in apparent danger of violence when His Majestie accompanied with some hundreds of armed men came thither to demand their Members let the world judge And now the Lords and Commons must appeal to the judgement of all impartiall men Whether they have not used their utmost and most faithfull endeavours to put an end to the distractions of this Kingdom and to restore it to a blessed and lasting Peace And whether their Propositions being the way thereunto were not such as were reasonable and necessary for them to make and just and Honourable for His Majesty to grant And whether His Mejesties Answer to these Propositions are satisfactory or correspondent to His Expression To have given up all the faculties of His soul to an earnest endeavour of a Peace and Reconciliation With His People But they must confesse that they had just cause to suspect That this would be the happy issue of the Treaty for the prevalency of the enemies thereof who like that evill spirit do most rage when they think they must be cast out was such that they would not proceed therein one step without some attempt or provocation layd in the way to interrupt and break it off for after they had resolved to present their humble desires and propositions to His Majesty their Committee must not without a speciall safe counduct and Protection from Him have accesse to Him a liberty incident to them not only as they are Members of the Parliament and employed by both Houses but as they were free born Subjects and yet when they passed over this His Majesty refused a safe conduct to the Lord Viscount Say and Seal being one of the Committee appointed by both Houses to be employed upon that occasion such a breach of priviledge that they beleeve is not to be paralelled by the example of former times and yet their desire was such to obtain the end they drive at that is a happy and lasting peace That they resolved not to interrupt the Treaty for that time by insisting upon it And then they had no sooner entred upon the Treaty but a Proclamation dated at Oxon the 16 of February 1642. entituled His Majesties Proclamation forbidding all His loving Subjects and the Counties of Kent Surrey Sussex and Hampshire to raise any Forces c. And another Proclamation dated the 8 of February forbidding the assessing and payment of all Taxes by vertue of an Ordinance of both Houses and all entring into Associations were published in